Linkage

W. T. Tutte's WWII cryptography work (G+)

Cube into rhombic dodecahedron dissection video (G+)

Calvin Seibert's geometric sand castles (G+)

Paco Santos' Hirsch counterexample wins him the Fulkerson Prize (G+)

Tessellating calligraphy (G+)

MacTutor History of Mathematics website honored by the London Mathematical Society (G+)

The backlash against using numerology to measure research quality gains strength

Turns out that folded brain surfaces and crumpled paper balls obey the same scaling laws relating uncrumpled area, crumpled size, and surface thickness

The Chronicle of Higher Education debunks recent claims that anti-women discrimination in academia is a thing of the past

Academics deserve weekends too (G+)

Why it's a good idea to keep reposting these link roundups here rather than trusting G+ to stay alive (G+)

Graphene kirigami nano-scale springs

Germans to Facebook: allow pseudonyms! (G+)

Visualizing the Heawood graph (using Wikipedia illustrations by me and others; G+)